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Re: Disk copying

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From: Ross Yahnke, MACC
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1990 14:05
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In article <20200077@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>, johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu writes...
-Written  8:02 am  Jan 17, 1990 by yahnke@vms.macc.wisc.edu
- > In article <}|R&F_@rpi.edu>, francis@pawl.rpi.edu (Frank J. Schima) writes...
- > -I have one FDHD floppy drive on a mac IIcx. I have 5 meg RAM, so
- > -why does it take more than one disk swap to copy one disk to another? 
- > -I realize the first swap is to check to see if there is space on the
- > -destination disk (among other things), but it can take 3 or more swaps
- > -sometimes. 
- > 
- > Are you running under MultiFinder? I suspect it may have something
- > to do with the partition size.
- 
-Partition size of what?
- 

A.K.A., the "Application Memory Size" as set in the Get Info box for
the relevant application under MultiFinder.

Though I suspect this isn't the case anyway. Under UniFinder even 
w/a lot of RAM you still have to swap disks a few times when copying
one from another. Best bet if you have several to do is to just
use a disk copy program, like the shareware DiskDup+.

>>>      Internet: yahnke@macc.wisc.edu        <<<
>>>   Mille voix chuchottent <<c'est vrai>>    <<<
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From: yahnke@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Ross Yahnke, MACC)
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